Oswald Avery was born on October 21, 1877, in Halifax, Nova Scotia; his parents were British emigrants. When young Oswald was ten years old his father, a Baptist minister, accepted a post as pastor of a New York City church and the family moved to New York in 1887. Oswald Avery attended Colgate Academy and Colgate University. He was a talented musician and became leader of the college band. In 1900 he received an A. B. Four years later he graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and enter into general practice in 1904. Dr. Avery became frustrated because there was so much suffering medicine could not alleviate. In 1907 he went to work for the Hoagland Laboratory Brooklyn, New York, the first privately endowed bacteriological research institute in the United States.
Dr. Avery became a member emeritus at the Rockefeller Institute in 1943 and continued his research there until 1948. He is best known for his work in discovering, along with Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty, that
deoxyribonucleic adic (DNA) serves as a genetic material.
Dr. Avery served as president for the American Association of Immunologists, the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, and the Society of American Bacteriologists, and was a member of numerous national medical assiciations.
Dr. Avery moved to Nashville in 1948. His brother, Roy Avery, was a bacteriologist at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine.
Dr. Avery became a member emeritus at the Rockefeller Institute in 1943 and continued his research there until 1948. He is best known for his work in discovering, along with Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty, that
deoxyribonucleic adic (DNA) serves as a genetic material.
Dr. Avery served as president for the American Association of Immunologists, the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, and the Society of American Bacteriologists, and was a member of numerous national medical assiciations.
Dr. Avery moved to Nashville in 1948. His brother, Roy Avery, was a bacteriologist at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine.
Oswald Avery was born on October 21, 1877, in Halifax, Nova Scotia; his parents were British emigrants. When young Oswald was ten years old his father, a Baptist minister, accepted a post as pastor of a New York City church and the family moved to New York in 1887. Oswald Avery attended Colgate Academy and Colgate University. He was a talented musician and became leader of the college band. In 1900 he received an A. B. Four years later he graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and enter into general practice in 1904. Dr. Avery became frustrated because there was so much suffering medicine could not alleviate. In 1907 he went to work for the Hoagland Laboratory Brooklyn, New York, the first privately endowed bacteriological research institute in the United States.
Dr. Avery became a member emeritus at the Rockefeller Institute in 1943 and continued his research there until 1948. He is best known for his work in discovering, along with Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty, that
deoxyribonucleic adic (DNA) serves as a genetic material.
Dr. Avery served as president for the American Association of Immunologists, the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, and the Society of American Bacteriologists, and was a member of numerous national medical assiciations.
Dr. Avery moved to Nashville in 1948. His brother, Roy Avery, was a bacteriologist at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine.
Dr. Avery became a member emeritus at the Rockefeller Institute in 1943 and continued his research there until 1948. He is best known for his work in discovering, along with Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty, that
deoxyribonucleic adic (DNA) serves as a genetic material.
Dr. Avery served as president for the American Association of Immunologists, the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, and the Society of American Bacteriologists, and was a member of numerous national medical assiciations.
Dr. Avery moved to Nashville in 1948. His brother, Roy Avery, was a bacteriologist at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine.
